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Newly-merged marketer Advantage International is aiming at the top slot in sports and event management and wants to double its share of the lucrative global business in three years, its new international chief says.

A senior FIFA official has said that the decision to allow a co-hosting of the 2002 World Cup by Japan and South Korea should not be challenged.

FIFA are looking into the possibility of rescheduling the Confederations Cup from January to August 1999 after world champions France withdrew last month.

Australia's leading anti-doping expert wants the International Olympic Committee to start testing competitors as soon as they set up house in the Olympic village ahead of the Sydney 2000 Games.

A Tuesday news conference to announce Mike Tyson's comeback fight has been postponed because all the details have not been worked out.

On Day 136 of the NBA lockout, some owners talked Sunday about commissioner David Stern and his approach to negotiating a new deal with the players.

With no end in sight to the NBA lockout, overall No. 1 draft pick Michael Olowokandi might go to Europe to play professionally.

The volleyball world championship's fashion police have struck, fining seven teams $3,000 each for ignoring its new dress code.

After 11 days of silence, the opposing sides in the NBA lockout agreed to resume formal bargaining talks later this week, in a bid to save their Christmas NBC TV schedule.

Iran's soccer federation is weighing an invitation to play friendly matches in the United States, a federation official has said.

The manager of English football club Manchester United, Alex Ferguson, is interested in expanding sporting investment to Australian soccer clubs, according to a Reuters report.

The NFL's New England Patriots have reached an agreement to move to Hartford, Connecticut from their current Foxboro, Massachusetts home within three years.

New York Yankees majority owner George Steinbrenner has agreed in principle to sell his stake in the team to media giant Cablevision Systems Corporation in a record-setting deal, New York media has reported.

Yankees majority owner George Steinbrenner has said that should he sell his stake in the team to media giant Cablevision Systems Corporation, he and his family would remain in control of the club.

Basketball star Dennis Rodman is seeking to annul his nine-day-old marriage to former Playboy model Carmen Electra, saying he was of "unsound mind" when the wedding took place, according to court papers obtained by the Orange Country Register.

Cablevision Systems' negotiations to buy a majority stake in the New York Yankees from principal owner George Steinbrenner haven broken down.